#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Normalize evaluation perplexity to bits-per-character (BPC). PPL is not comparable across languages or tokenizers: a tokenizer with higher fertility (tokens per character) spreads the same text over more tokens, which inflates PPL. BPC divides the total negative log-likelihood by characters instead: BPC = log2(PPL) * tokens / chars = log2(PPL) * fertility Only the public tokenizer is needed. No model weights, no GPU. ``tokens`` here means *scored* positions, matching what ``eval_quantized.py`` puts in its JSON: each chunk contributes ``len(chunk) - 1`` predictions, since the first token of every chunk is only context. The character count is measured on the same scored stream: the chunks are rebuilt with the same ``chunks_from_text`` logic as ``eval_quantized.py``, the full stream is decoded once, and the characters of the skipped first token of each chunk are removed. This avoids counting every chunk boundary twice. Usage: python scripts/compute_bpc.py \ --ppl-json out/eval/ppl_en.json \ --ppl-json out/eval/ppl_ja.json \ --tokenizer Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B python scripts/compute_bpc.py --ppl-json ppl_en.json --tokenizer ./tokenizer-dir --json report.json """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import hashlib import json import math from pathlib import Path from typing import Any def load_tokenizer(source: str): from tokenizers import Tokenizer path = Path(source) if path.is_dir(): return Tokenizer.from_file(str(path / "tokenizer.json")) if path.is_file(): return Tokenizer.from_file(str(path)) from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download return Tokenizer.from_file(hf_hub_download(source, "tokenizer.json")) def chunks_from_text(tokenizer, text: str, max_tokens: int, min_tokens: int, limit: int) -> list[list[int]]: """Mirror of eval_quantized.chunks_from_text; must stay identical.""" ids = tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=True).ids chunks = [ids[start : start + max_tokens] for start in range(0, len(ids), max_tokens)] chunks = [chunk for chunk in chunks if len(chunk) >= min_tokens] return chunks[:limit] def read_corpus(path: str) -> str: text = Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8") return text.replace("\x00", "") def scored_tokens(chunks: list[list[int]]) -> int: """Predictions per chunk: every token except the first (context only).""" return sum(max(len(chunk) - 1, 0) for chunk in chunks) def target_chars(tokenizer, chunks: list[list[int]]) -> int: """Characters of the scored stream. Decoding the whole stream at once keeps multi-byte characters intact; the context-only first token of each chunk is then removed. A token that holds a partial UTF-8 sequence at a chunk boundary can shift this by at most one character per chunk. """ flat: list[int] = [] for chunk in chunks: flat.extend(chunk) full = tokenizer.decode(flat) skipped = sum(len(tokenizer.decode([chunk[0]])) for chunk in chunks if chunk) return len(full) - skipped def bpc(ppl: float, tokens: int, chars: int) -> float: if chars <= 0: raise ValueError("chars must be positive") if tokens <= 0: raise ValueError("tokens must be positive") if ppl <= 0: raise ValueError("ppl must be positive") return math.log2(ppl) * tokens / chars def sha256_text(path: str) -> str | None: try: return hashlib.sha256(Path(path).read_bytes()).hexdigest()[:16] except OSError: return None def analyze(payload: dict[str, Any], tokenizer_source: str, corpus_override: str | None) -> dict[str, Any]: config = payload.get("config") or {} corpus = corpus_override or config.get("corpus") or payload.get("corpus") if not corpus: raise SystemExit("no corpus in PPL JSON; pass --corpus") max_tokens = int(config.get("max_tokens", 128)) min_tokens = int(config.get("min_tokens", 16)) max_sequences = int(config.get("max_sequences", payload.get("chunks", 0) or 0)) if max_sequences <= 0: raise SystemExit("no max_sequences in PPL JSON; pass --max-sequences") tokenizer = load_tokenizer(tokenizer_source) text = read_corpus(corpus) chunks = chunks_from_text(tokenizer, text, max_tokens, min_tokens, max_sequences) if not chunks: raise SystemExit(f"no chunks from {corpus}") tokens = scored_tokens(chunks) chars = target_chars(tokenizer, chunks) fertility = tokens / chars expected_chunks = payload.get("chunks") expected_tokens = payload.get("tokens") report: dict[str, Any] = { "corpus": corpus, "corpus_sha256": sha256_text(corpus), "tokenizer": tokenizer_source, "config": { "max_tokens": max_tokens, "min_tokens": min_tokens, "max_sequences": max_sequences, }, "chunks": len(chunks), "tokens": tokens, "chars": chars, "tokens_per_char": fertility, "reproduced": { "chunks_match": expected_chunks is None or expected_chunks == len(chunks), "tokens_match": expected_tokens is None or expected_tokens == tokens, }, } for key, value in payload.items(): if key.endswith("_ppl") and isinstance(value, (int, float)): label = key[: -len("_ppl")] or "model" report[f"bpc_{label}"] = bpc(float(value), tokens, chars) report[f"ppl_{label}"] = float(value) if "delta_nll_per_token" in payload: report["bpc_delta"] = float(payload["delta_nll_per_token"]) / math.log(2) * fertility return report def format_table(reports: list[dict[str, Any]]) -> str: lines = [ "| run | chunks | tokens | chars | tok/char | PPL | BPC |", "|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|", ] for report in reports: name = Path(report.get("source", "?")).parent.name or "?" ppl = report.get("ppl_candidate", report.get("ppl_bf16")) bp = report.get("bpc_candidate", report.get("bpc_bf16")) lines.append( f"| {name} | {report['chunks']} | {report['tokens']} | {report['chars']} " f"| {report['tokens_per_char']:.4f} | {ppl:.2f} | {bp:.4f} |" ) return "\n".join(lines) def main() -> None: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) parser.add_argument("--ppl-json", action="append", required=True, help="eval_quantized.py output (repeatable)") parser.add_argument("--tokenizer", required=True, help="tokenizer dir, tokenizer.json, or HF repo id") parser.add_argument("--corpus", default=None, help="override corpus path recorded in the PPL JSON") parser.add_argument("--json", default=None, help="write the report here") parser.add_argument("--strict", action="store_true", help="fail when chunk/token counts do not reproduce") args = parser.parse_args() reports = [] failed = False for path in args.ppl_json: payload = json.loads(Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8")) report = analyze(payload, args.tokenizer, args.corpus) report["source"] = str(path) reports.append(report) reproduced = report["reproduced"] if args.strict and not (reproduced["chunks_match"] and reproduced["tokens_match"]): failed = True print(f"MISMATCH {path}: {reproduced}") for report in reports: print(json.dumps(report, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)) print() print(format_table(reports)) if args.json: Path(args.json).write_text(json.dumps(reports, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False), encoding="utf-8") print(f"\nwrote {args.json}") if failed: raise SystemExit(1) if __name__ == "__main__": main()